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By medical nutritionist Dr Sarah Brewer, an expert in food, herbs and supplements When kids go back to school they inevitably come into contact with a new batch of common cold viruses. When children are in the peak of health they can fight off infections with few, if any, symptoms, but when they are under par they may develop one cold after another. Cold viruses are also involved in 40 percent of asthma episodes in school children. Boosting children’s immunity…

When you are more stressed than your best, there’s something natural to consider. Esther Mills-Roberts explains… Stress is a normal part of our lives, an evolutionary mechanism to tell us about things that aren’t so good for us, to allow our body to kick-start processes to realign and for us to learn from our experiences. But, from time to time, the level of stress that loads our lives is more than what is deemed as healthy – so what might…

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